Elsa Fontainha is a PhD in Economics, Associate Professor. Coordinator at ISEG Lisbon School of Economics & Management, Universidade de Lisboa of two EU Horizon projects: GEPINC (jan2025_dec2027) Gender Equality Plans for INclusivity: engines of Change G.A.101187961 and PLOTINA (2016-2020) Project Promoting Gender Balance and Inclusion in Research, Innovation and Training G.A.666008. Member of the H2020 Project DiSSCo Distributed System of Scientific Collections (1 Feb2020- 31Jan2023) G.A. 871043. Team member and consultant on international, multi-institutional and interdisciplinary projects. Board Member of Society of Economics of the Household (SEHO). Member of the ISEG RESEARCH in Economics and Management and CESA (Center for African and Development Studies). Received a Distinguished Visiting Scholarships Scheme from the Information School of University of Sheffield (UK) and the Canadian Studies Faculty Research Award. Spent a sabbatical leave at St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada. Coordinator in projects funded by European Union, International Council of Canadian Studies and British Council. Expert in Statistics Portugal and Portuguese Ministry of Education projects. Current research focus on scientific work by gender with results published in Scientometrics and Journal of Informetrics. She has also articles in Review of Economics of the Household, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Journal of Information Science, Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Information Research, Procedia Techology, Library High Tech, and eLearning Papers. Member of the Board of Editors and author in Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, 10 vols, Springer (2014 1st ed.; 2023 2nd edition). Last publication: Albuquerque, P.C., Fontainha, E. (2023). Social Exclusion in Later Life, Evidence from the European Social Survey. In: Burnay, N., Ogg, J., Krekula, C., Vendramin, P. (eds) Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes. Life Course Research and Social Policies, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11272-0_11. Former member of the Scientific and Pedagogical Coordination of the Master in Economics and Public Policy in ISEG. Experience in coordination and teaching: Project Evaluation and Externalities (post graduate course Sustainable Energy Systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Portugal Program); Economics of Education (Master level); Project Appraisal; and Household Economics and Finance.

*ResearcherID Web of Science http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-3047-2008; *ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7870-3556;*Google Scholar https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=i64hQ4MAAAAJ&amp%3Bhl=en

Coordination and Member of Horizon 2020 Projects:

*GEPINC Gender Equality Plans for INclusivity: engines of Change GA 101187961; https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101187961

*DiSSCo Distributed System of Scientific Collections (1 Feb2020- 31Jan2023) GA 871043; https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/871043

* PLOTINA Promoting Gender Balance and Inclusion in Research, Innovation and Training (Coordinator in ISEG)(1 Feb2016- 31 Jan2020) GA 666008 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/666008